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Foxhole NY Premier at The Museum of Modern Art

Situating an existential human drama in the most claustrophobic, terrifying, and monotonous of settings—a battlefield trench—has been an irresistible lure to filmmakers like Howard Hawks, Lewis Milestone, Samuel Fuller, Stanley Kubrick, and G. W. Pabst. Jack Fessenden’s ambitious contribution to this wartime genre achieves an almost abstract beauty as it spans 36 hours across three separate wars: the American Civil War, World War I, and the Gulf. Remarkably, Fessenden, who grew up watching his parents, Larry Fessenden and stop-motion animator Beck Underwood, make movies, and who began making movies of his own at age seven, wrote the script for Foxhole while still in high school, shot the film after his first year at Wesleyan, and cut and scored it while isolated in upstate New York during the pandemic.

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Forbidden Cuba invited to Exclusive Film Festivals

NEW YORK – Sept. 29, 2017 – Nous Entertainment and Great Jones Productions today announced that “Forbidden Cuba,” the first American feature-length film made in Cuba since 1959, has been invited to exclusive film festivals to debut for east and west coast audiences. Director Art Jones will be leading a crucial discussion and dialogue entitled, “What’s at Stake in Today’s Cuba,” immediately following both airings. The film made its Los Angeles debut on Sept.

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Forbidden Cuba Screening at the Brooklyn Film Festival

Forbidden Cuba Screening at the Brooklyn Film Festival. June 7th and June 11th. Click here for more information. The June 11 screening will be followed by the PANEL DISCUSSION: “What’s at Stake in a Rapidly Changing Cuba” Panelists: Ted Henken / Former President of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York - Charles Bittner / Academic Liaison at The Nation - Art Jones / Writer, Director, Producer - Raphael Duvernay / Co-Director of Photography, Producer - Joe Foley / Co-Director of Photography, Producer

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Samuel Goldwyn Films Nabs War Horror Pic ‘Foxhole’

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired the North American rights to Jack Fessenden’s war film Foxhole after a world premiere at Oldenberg. The drama — which stars Motell Gyn Foster, Alex Hurt and Cody Kostro — over a span of 36 hours captures Americans in three separate wars — the U.S. Civil War, World War I and the Iraq war. Foxhole follows a small group of soldiers trapped in a confined space as they grapple with morality, futility and volatile combat.

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‘Foxhole’: Film Review | Oldenburg 2021

A triptych of vignettes set in places where exhaustion, tedium, fear and duty collide to make moral reasoning difficult, Foxhole marks the second feature so far by a filmmaker barely out of his teens. Jack Fessenden (son of genre fixture Larry, a producer here) wears many hats, most of them very well, teaming with a fine cast to deliver a war film where happy endings may be imagined but bloody ones are never in doubt.

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